Neil Young – My Pledge (Guitar)

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If it please the court I've had a lot to say

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And it's not always been true

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Standing here before you, judge

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I make my pledge of truth to you

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The waves came over the bowsprit

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The decks awash with running green and foam

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Back there at the wheel I was terrified

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Next day we first saw home

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My relatives came over on the Mayflower

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Landed on the shore almost alone

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No that damn traffic today is terrible

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And everywhere I look I see people alone

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Alone with their heads looking in their hands

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Lost in the conversation stare

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Walking with their eyes looking at the screen

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Talking like they were really there

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I'm lost in this new generation

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Left me behind it seems

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Listening to the shadow of Jimi Hendrix

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"Purple Haze", sounding like TV

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I stepped on someone's hand laying on the street

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Both asleep and dead it may seem

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He didn't even move there on the sidewalk

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I stood there staring in a dream

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She came along in her uniform

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Stood moving me away with a gentle hand

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Dressed in white like a nightingale

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Her name was Florence, Florence of the Land

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(I knew I'd seen her somewhere)

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I knew I'd seen her somewhere

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But she was busy with him gone

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She came with three different brothers

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Abraham, Martin and John

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I heard a song about that once

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And I never knew what it meant

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Three stars died in a plane one night

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Rock and Roll, the message that was sent

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I couldn't wrap my head around it

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Didn't know what it meant

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Standing there on that sandy beach

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Watching it turn to cement

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Now I don't see all the colors

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And I might miss some of their beauty

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But I do see what I see

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And I want to do my duty

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Enlisted in the Navy at the corner store

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They had a recruiting booth

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I covered my heart and raised my hand

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And swore it was the truth

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 That's my pledge

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 That's my pledge

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 That's my pledge, judge

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 That's my pledge